I started using outlines in '85 with Thinktank and More. I'm using OmniOutliner Pro now. I live in outlines and find it baffling that they haven't taken over the world. I'd go further and banish linear text altogether.

My fondest hope is that Dave Winer will get together with Ken Case of the OmniGroup and make the ultimate outliner geared toward a simple consumer friendly and beautiful means of building a website. I know Fargo can do this, but it needs to be more elegant and intuitive for the average consumer.

I yearn for the dogs breakfast of random navigation schemes dominant on the web to be replaced by outline structure. How did we get stuck with the fixed idea of linear text? How did we miss that the constraints of paper need no longer apply? I know I'm preaching to choir on this site. This is an appeal to Dave and Ken to change the web.

Oh, and while we're at it, why not build a search engine with actual context. A giant outline to compete with the keyword approach Google is so fixated on. It is a fallacy to assume the searcher is possessed of the needed vocabulary to have the keyword approach work. Google search is a list of turns. An outline is a map of the territory. We need Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia on board with such an effort.